TRAVEL ANIMAL RESCUE GLOBAL
UK-REGISTERED CHARITY # 1203785
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Annual Return
Last updated: 31/01/2025
Travel Animal Rescue Global Charitable Incorporated Organisation Registered Charity No. 1203785 Companies House No. CE032825
ANNUAL ACCOUNTS & TRUSTEES' REPORT For the year ended 1st April 2024
Travel Animal Rescue Global is a registered charity whose purpose is to relieve the suffering of community cats and other animals. Our work includes sterilization/vaccination projects for free-living community cats, animal rescue sanctuary support, and recruitment projects connecting qualified and experienced animal caretakers and rescue sanctuaries. We also voluntarily advise animal-based nonprofits on administrative, operational, and logistics matters to help and support their organisations running more smoothly.
Trustees
Founder - Adelle Louise Goodman Trustee - Anupriya Dalmia Trustee - Shakira Free Miles Trustee - Fabian George Blake Rivers
Banks
Clydesdale Bank PLC (trading as Virgin Money) 30 St Vincent Place, Glasgow G12HL, Scotland
Wise Bank 30 W. 26th Street, Sixth Floor, New York, NY 10010, USA
Registered Office
63 South Street, Worthing BN147NE, United Kingdom
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Trustees’ Report
Travel Animal Rescue Global Charitable Incorporated Organisation For the year ended 1st April 2024
This is the first report of the Trustees for the CIO.
STRUCTURE AND GOVERNANCE
Travel Animal Rescue Global is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) not having a share capital, having its constitution and objectives set out in a document with last amended date 4th July 2023. The Trustees are empowered to exercise all the powers of the CIO subject to its constitution and charity law. During the year, there were four trustees (as above) and all now offer themselves for reappointment.
RISK MANAGEMENT AND RESERVE POLICY
There is negligible risk in the operation of Travel Animal Rescue Global. It is the policy of Travel Animal Rescue Global not to create expenditure in the form of activities unless funds are available. Additionally, the founder and chair is present in person and consents to every expenditure when it is paid, and all trustees are consulted when a new or unique expenditure activity occurs, such as the rescue of a new species. Operational/administrative/banking costs amount to 3.69% of all costs whereas costs incurred by direct actions of the charity amount to 96.30%
OBJECTIVES AND PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES
Travel Animal Rescue Global is a registered charity whose purpose is to relieve the suffering of community cats and other animals, particularly through sterilization/vaccination projects for free-living community cats, and rescue and rehabilitation for other animals. Our primary focus is on free-living community cats, helping others where practical and possible. The work is currently predominantly done in Athens, Greece but has also occured in support of other nonprofits on several Greek islands.
The execution of all community cat care and population management actions is done strategically, thoughtfully, and with a focus on strategic, efficient, high-volume work, high-quality care, humane and compassionate methods, based on presently available resources and capacities to retain a sustainable and repeatable nature.
The charity does not incur expenses it cannot repay, such as veterinary costs for sterilization or long-term care, and it does not foster or rescue animals beyond it’s practical capacity to
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prioritize longevity of the work, support and faciliate community-level action, and ensure the primary focus of high-volume population management is retained.
Travel Animal Rescue Global works very closely with other non-profit organisations both locally, nationally, and internationally. We have amassed a network of charitable organisations dedicated to the protection of animals in many capacities across more than 100 countries. Having worked directly with charities, groups, and volunteers in 13 cities and 6 countries, creating a diverse network across the animal protection sector is a key feature of our vision. This establishes the framework for building bridges and increasing the capacity across the sector as a whole.
We have a specialised community cat sterilisation template which collects highly-detailed data points from the field of work and catalogs every individual covered by the program.
Our principal activity is to cover the cost of expenses to veterinary professionals in Greece for sterilisation surgery and parasite treatment for felines, including additional medical needs they have at the time of intervention, including dental work, eye enucleations, amputations, and more. It is not our policy to return community cats to their environment unless they are in a suitable condition to thrive.
Felines who were rescued under the charity’s work also received vaccinations, microchips, and regular parasite treatment as needed. Currently, Travel Animal Rescue Global has a good relationship with a few core veterinary clinics in Athens, Greece, all of whom were chosen based on their quality of care being at a high-level, utilising fear-free methods where possible, and ensuring appropriate drug protocols for both anesthesia and analgesia are used.
The Trustees confirm that the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit has been considered in relation to the objectives of the Charity. The report sets out those objectives and describes how they have been met in the current year.
REVIEW OF ACTIVITIES IN THE YEAR 2023/2024
Even though only registered in 2023, the charity has been providing voluntary charitable services to the communities its founder lived in since 2021.
Travel Animal Rescue Global has been able to facilitate the sterilisation of 1,494 community cats since the start of its actions in 2021 throughout Greece, Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the United States. While a portion of these cats were trapped, sterilized, and covered financially by Travel Animal Rescue Global, a large percentage of these sterilizations were achieved in collaboration with fellow animal charity groups and indivdual volunteers. This is a core feature of our organization - to facilitate and support the work of others to exponentially amplify it by providing advice, physical skill, and peer-learning.
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TNR interventions occured alongside volunteers and neighbors all over Athens while focusing on sterilizing colony-by-colony in each area, and liaising on the improvement of procedures at the vet around anesthesia, analgesia, and stress management.
One intervention was performed on Syros island with The 5th Cat, a French charity, where 22 cats were sterilized and treated.
Two interventions were performed on Lefkada island with The Arc Sanctuary, not only helping to sterilize multiple cats, but also facilitating the founder in the care of their 100+ rescued animals at their sanctuary for two weeks alongside prominent Uk-based registered vet nurse and expert one-to-one carer, Shakira Free.
A third intervention was performed in Porto Rafti near Athens with Saaving Lives, an international charity focusing on TNR in Greece for the past few years where 8 cats were sterilized.
Multiple efforts were made online to advise on the interventions of other volunteers, providing advice and network connections to improve outcomes and access to resources.
Throughout 2023, 4 cats were rescued and adopted in collaboration with local volunteers and international charities. 1 pigeon was rescued and taken to a specialty wilflife rehabilitation center for recovery. 1 rescued cat was flown to their forever home in the US by our founder as a flight volunteer in support of a fellow animal charity in Greece.
During this trip to the US, we secured donations from a generous contact from the United Spay Alliance and prominent HQHVSN programs such as Spay Panama and Spay Mexico, of 7 high-quality live catch US-made traps and 1 drop trap (the first of it’s kind in Greece) and normalized the use of this specialty equipment in Greece. We established a trap lending program where trusted volunteers all over Athens used the equipment to trap cats in their own colonies. Alongside The 5th Cat, we facilitated the donation of a second drop trap to The Arc Sanctuary in Lefkada island who has been effecively utilzing this equipment to trap cats for sterilization, one of the few actors on the island doing this activity, amplifying her ability to conduct TNVR efficiently and humanely.
We also secured two more donations totaling $1,000 which enabled us to purchase and ship high-quality TNVR equipment from two UK-based manufacturers which are also used locally and lent out to trusted volunteers.
Throughout 2024, 2 cats were rescued and are being prepared for adoption in collaboration with international charities. Multiple cats from multiple organizations in Greece and France were provided a safe place to overnight with our founder while transiting to their forever homes abroad. 2 fish were rescued and are housed with and cared for by the charity’s founder. 6 pigeons were rescued and taken to a specialty wilflife rehabilitation center for recovery. We also
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began volunteering weekly at this center to have a clearer idea of the level of care avians are receiving when rescued and surrendered.
Since the beginning of our activities in 2021, we have been successful in receiving two grants, one from The Pollination Project (an animal rights grantor) for $1,000, and one from Greek Cat Welfare Society (a Greek feline-focused grantor) for €1,000 which went towards veterinary care and sterilization costs. Additional fundraising was done to increase and many local neighbors donated whose entire colonies we helped sterilize and treat. TPP grant was received prior to the charity’s registration this isn’t recorded in this annual report, while the GCWS grant was received during this financial year, yet didn’t enter the charity’s bank account as it was required by the grantor to be credited directly to the veterinary clinic.
We practiced TNRM (Trap-Neuter-Return-Monitor) where we retained detailed records and photographs of each feline who was Trapped and Neutered through our program before being Returned. We regularly returned to the colonies we acted in to Monitor their status and ensure any newcomers were also sterilized. We returned to colonies with kittens to sterilize the kittens when old enough. We provided additional treatments as needed such as parasite treatment. We intend to introduce vaccinations n the coming year. We established veterinary care and general intervention protocols with the help of our experienced trustees and registered veterinary professionals. We now have protocols around Euthanasia Decision-Making and Infectious Disease Management, Considerate Trapping and Transportation Methods, Appropriate Anesthesia and Analgesia, and Disinfection and Sanitation protocols.
Since it’s registration, the charity built a basic yet functional and clear website with the support of a volunteer web developer.
The charity grew it’s social media platform, which is predominantly used as an educational platform on 1) the benefits and necessity of sterilization and care of community cats, 2) the importance of community care and local solidarity action in general as a key feature of this animal protection work, 3) the reality of the lives of community animals in Greece and worldwide, 4) the crucial work other Cat Population Management organizations are doing globally, 5) acknowledging capacity limits and strategic and thoughtful action to ensure volunteers and colleagues well-being acknowledging burnout and compassion fatigue as real threats to sustainability, 6) the vitality of CPM work being done strategically to ensure efficiency, 7) improving access to modern science around niche yet crucial topics such as pediatric sterilization and pregnant spays, 8) improving methods and approaches of humane, considerate, and fear-free trapping and catching techniques during TNVRM interventions, 9) normalizing the presence of FAS (Fear-Anxiety-Stress) in community cats and fear/stress/pain-scoring techniques, and 10) platforming important learning opportunities from feline-focused educational and training programs like TNR certifications and
workshops/courses, amongst other topics. The core goal of all the charity’s public content is to professionalize the sector and improve access to good quality interventions.
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In 2023, the charity’s founder presented CPM- and TNVRM-focused topics at various online and in-person conferences including the International Animal Rights Conference in Luxembourg, The Kitten Coalition’s online conference, the Conference for Animal Liberation in Copenhagen, and presented during a panel discussion for iCatConnect hosted by iCatCare (International Society of Feline Medicine).
We have already secuerd two presentations in 2025, at the Athens Cat Festival in February, and returning to the Kitten Coalition’s online conference in June, and are establishing a global HQHVSN / TNVRM / CPM-focused podcast alongside fellow TNVRM interventionist Saaving Lives which will platform incredible CPM and DPM interventionists across the world, particularly The Global South.
Throughout 2024, in support of a local cat charity, the charity’s founder participated in a first-of-its-kind HQHVSN program in Athens, Greece with a goal of 1,000 cats being sterilized which was achieved and exceeded. The founder also facilitated making connections with 100+ local feeders and caregivers, while connecting with a network of multiple national CPM-focused charities whose events and projects they visited and peer-learned from. We successfully helped this local charity establish SOPs and protocols securing cat welfare such as Disinfection and Sanitation, Humane Fieldwork Interventions, and Project Management.
In 2024, the charity’s founder also became a trustee of SNIPi - a UK-registered charity focused on improving access to high-quality live-catch humane TNVR equipment globally by donating UK-manufactured trapping equipment that is typically inaccessible to the Global South and small grassroots groups.
FINANCIAL RESULTS AND ACCOUNTS
As shown in the Receipts and Payments below, expenditure only appears to have exceeded income for the year ended 1st April 2024 solely due to the positive balance not being transfered from the charity Virgin Bank account to the charity Wise account. After transfering the Virgin Bank balance (where UK-based donations are kept until they’re spent on field actions in Greece), the Wise balance was back to a positive amount. The accounts are prepared on a ‘receipts and payments’ basis as prescribed by the Charity Commission and the CIO governing document.
CURRENT AND FUTURE OPERATIONS
Our priority for 2024 and beyond is to continue promoting high-quality, high-volume sterilisation and vaccination interventions as the key solution to the free-roaming animal situation in Greece and worldwide. We aim to continue growing a network of local, national, and global animal protectors who are well-informed, enthusiastic about doing better and aiming higher for what we
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can accomplish well for the animals we work to protect. Progress has already been made in this respect.
In 2022, the charity’s founder traveled to Bosnia and Herzegovina to assist with training of use of specialty live catch trapping equipment for local volunteers found by a locally-established charity, Cats of Trebinje. We would like to perform more interventions like this which assist in training and peer-learning, amplifying the local CPM efforts of organisations across the world.
Our community-focused intervention approach will help increase awareness about what we do and how it can be implemented can help more communities in Montenegro. Our core goal has always been and will continue to be improving access to the resources communities need to facilitate, amplify, and improve their interventions for cat population management while encouraging collaboration across the sector and neighborhoods.
FUTURE POLICY AND DONATIONS
To create a greater impact, we will review our fundraising/marketing strategies to increase income where possible thereby increasing our ability to sterilise more animals. Our focus has generally been on applying for grants which can fund a huge chunk of sterilization work
We will continue to support the education and training of colleagues, volunteers, and neighbors in Greece and beyond while engaging in TNVR interventions with them, which has proven fruitful in obtaining donations for future TNVR.
Finally, we wish to thank all our Donors and Community Contacts. Their support has been invaluable in helping us to meet our aims of strategic interventions that help the most community animals possible, and we are keen to encourage others throughout our local communities to join us in fulfilling this mission together.
Adelle Louise Goodman – Chair
Date 31st January 2025
STATEMENT OF TRUSTEES’ RESPONSIBILITIES
Charity Law requires the Trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year giving details of Income and Expenditure in the year together with assets and liabilities.
The Trustees also acknowledge their responsibility to keep proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the CIO.
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They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities
Annual Accounts
Travel Animal Rescue Global Charitable Incorporated Organisation For the year ended 1st April 2024
Income
| Individual Donations / Online Donation Platforms €1,341.27 |
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| Cash Donations €510.00 |
| Admin & Bank Refunds €1.68 |
| Grants €0 |
| Gift Aid €0 |
| Cash brought forward from 06/28/2023 €0 |
| Bank balance brought forward from 06/28/2023 €128.39.00 |
| TOTAL INCOME €1,341.27 |
* Excluded from TOTAL INCOME
Grant - Greek Cat Welfare Society (transfered directly to vet clinic, 24% tax)
€1,000.00
Payments and Receipts
| Payments for Veterinary Services €762.00 |
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| Donations to Nonprofits TNR/Veterinary Services €193.79 |
| Transportation to Veterinary Clinics €684.30 |
| Equipment & Supplies €729.45 |
| Administration €8.51 |
| Bank Charges €82.42 |
| TOTAL RECEIPTS €2,460.47 |
| Bank balance brought forward from 06/28/2023 -€479.13 |
STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES
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The above statement shows the receipts and payments for the year. As Travel Animal Rescue Global is in its first year there, is no comparison for earlier years.
STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES AS AT 1st April 2024
The accounts have been prepared under the receipts and payments basis of accounting as prescribed by the Charity Commission and the charity’s governing documents.
For the year, ending 1st April 2024, the CIO was entitled to exemption from audit and independent examination as its income was below the required threshold.
The trustees acknowledge their responsibility for complying with the requirements of the Charity Commission with respect to accounting records and for the preparation of accounts.
Approved by the Board of Trustees Date: 31/01/2025 Adelle Louise Goodman, Chair
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 1st April 2024
1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES
The financial statements have been prepared on a receipts and payments basis in accordance with the prescribed format of the Charity Commission.
Voluntary income is received in the form of donations from individuals, grants from charitable funds and online donation platforms such as PayPal, Stripe, Patreon, Donorbox, and Ko-Fi. Certain administrative, publicity and all travel costs are borne by the Trustees and not reimbursed.
i) Grants from charitable funds are included in the Statement of Financial Activities when payment has been received.
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ii) Where significant income arises from occasional promotional events, such income is shown separately before deduction of expenses and the related expenditure, if material, is also shown separately.
Expenditure is included in the Statement of Financial Activities when paid and noted separately are any outstanding liabilities when incurred including constructive obligations, if any have arisen.
2. VOLUNTARY SERVICES
Travel Animal Rescue Global has no employees. All its activities are carried out voluntarily.
The Trustees are prohibited from receiving any remuneration for their services under the terms of the constitution unless such services are provided in a professional capacity. There were no such professional charges in the year.
3. TAXATION
No liability to or refund of UK tax arises as a result of these accounts.
4. UNRESTRICTED FUND
This represents the cumulative surplus of income over expenditure and is generally available to meet expenditures incurred by the company as detailed above.
5. CONSTITUTION
Travel Animal Rescue Global was incorporated as a CIO on the 28th June 2023 and the liability of each member is limited to £0.
Independent Examiner’s Report not needed.
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